New Phone and Outside game features

I may be the only person who thinks this, but I would like to see more phone and website apps the help with in-game events and feature.

One such idea would be an application that allows you to control your retainers from outside the game. There are a lot of times that I'm not around my console or PC when my retainer sells an item or finishes a venture and even though I'm not I would like to be able to send them to do something else.

Another would to be able to have a cross platform calendar so that you are able to keep updated on FC events and in game events; even if you are away from the game for a little while.

A third idea would be to do away with the one-time password and add a type of access button that would allow you to push the button and then for the IP address to come thru you could log in with your credentials but if the button wasn't pushed then it would kick it back out as invalid.

I'll add more to this as people have suggestions or I have ideas.